Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
The Supreme Court's ruling brushed aside, with no reasoning from the court, the district court's 52-page order and the circuit court's 61-page order affirming it.
$1,400 for a computer part from Germany. $620 for an aluminum case from Sweden. $1,041 for handbags from Spain. U.S. shoppers are being hit with surprise charges from international shipping carriers as exemptions on import duties for items under $800 expires as a part of Trumpâs tariff push.
A quick Strict Scrutiny @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Crooked Media @crooked.com rapid response YouTube video to today's SCOTUS BS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZ_...
The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.
For years, gun nuts insisted that 2-year-olds didn't have the strength to pull a trigger. But they do. Dozens of times a year. It's one of the dumbest lies I've ever heard. #GunFAIL
Donât let Trumpâs incredibly creepy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein make you miss another letter in which a member of Trumpâs beach club jokes about Epstein showing âearly âpeople skillsââ by selling Trump a âfully depreciatedâ woman
Similarly, making it illegal for me to rob a bank could hinder my innovations in wealth acquisition.
At let's say $15 each for a digital copy they could have bought 100 million books for what they're paying in this settlement rather than stealing them, so maybe this will convince the AI companies to go about things in the right way, just saying Also "this could hinder AI innovation," LOL
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
The Wall Street Journal is posting Trumpâs love letters to a convicted and notorious sex trafficker, and weâre supposed to believe heâs such an unstoppable political juggernaut that all of US society must inevitably bend to his gravity.
This image is almost exactly what I was picturing - except for the boobs. Being Trump, Iâd assumed theyâd be gigantic, exaggerated. The fact that they arenât, in this specific context, seems very significant!
"I won't tell you what it is" over underdeveloped breasts is certainly a choice
For my friends, everything. For my enemies: the law. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A number of American citizens found themselves physically assaulted and held at gunpoint until they could produce documentation. The Supreme Court is good with that. slate.trib.al/SGYyFcc
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
"Half the populationâ of greater Los Angeles "now meet the governmentâs criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Thing is âavoiding a constitutional crisis by blatantly shredding the constitutionâ defeats the purpose if that is actually the goal.
âThe âpivot to crimeâ is pretext and distraction. The pretext is to justify further deployments of the military into American cities. The purpose is to normalize the practiceâŠAs for the distraction: Trump is desperate to prevent people from noticing the economy.â open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
If, per Ezra Klein, funding Trump's government without attempting to rein him in amounts to "complicity" (and it does) then there's only one alternative approach: attempt to rein him in. There is no door number three. www.offmessage.net/p/there-is-n...
Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the six largest health insurers raked in more than $31 billion in net income last year. Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?
More blood for the AI Blood Gods; MORE BLOOD FOR THE AI BLOOD GODS
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
â.. The administration âhas all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low-wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time .. and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents' satisfaction.ââ - Sotomayor @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Just the judiciary arm of the Trump White House at this point ....
In so many ways, the Roberts Court has revived the logic of Dred Scott: that racially targeted groups have âno rights which the white man was bound to respect.â Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.
the maga constitution doesnât allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
âTomorrow,â said Toad, âI can just take life easy.â Toad went back to bed.
Make Domestic Violence Great Again? Trump dismissing the problem of domestic abuse. Deplorable.
Literally "your papers please," but only for non-white people. This country is regressing. And the regression is accelerating.
The Supreme Court is now directly overturning generations of precedent via the shadow docket.
You deserve a break on Sundays that doesnât break the bank.
John Roberts is doing it again. The only difference here is that the FTC is backed by a 90-year-precedent that has stood the test of time, allowing Congress to set up bipartisan, expert-led independent agencies. To quote Elena Kagan: "Todayâs order ... favors the President over our precedent."
The Atlantic published this drivel? Makes me wish i still had a subscription so i could cancel it all over again. So embarrassing.
âAuthoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.â
On left Rubio 2016: "We write to express grave concern about the campaign of extrajudicial killings...by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte under the guise of his so-called 'War on Drugs.'" On right Rubio 2025: Praising presidential killing of alleged drug traffickers
There is simply no value to Democrats in helping with passing budgets or CRs when the administration claims limitless arbitrary impoundment and rescission powers.
Trump posted online that Chicago was "about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," but later said his administration wouldn't go to war with American cities but rather "clean them up."
Climate change is an economic emergency, part 1000: More than $1 trillion in US wages has been lost to wildfire smoke alone in the past 5 years. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
On MSNBC on Saturday, I made the point that Pam Bondi was the Attorney General of Florida from 2011 to 2019-at the very time Jeffrey Epstein was running his child sex ring in Florida. Why didn't she investigate him? Was she protecting Trump?Why isn't the media pressing her on this?!
Something folks are missing here: this raid wasnât about âillegals taking American jobs.â It was about ICE storming the HyundaiâLG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isnât even operational yet. đ§”
Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasnât true. You just mean you didnât think heâd go after white people.
*She has been a lawful US resident for 37 years, married to a Navy veteran. *She spends her time and money helping others. *She passed a bad check for $25 a decade ago, a misdemeanor that was cleared when she repaid the funds. Now Trump is trying to deport her: www.newsweek.com/veteran-regr...
this Tuesday, in two days, I'm watching elections in: in Virginia in Massachusetts, and in Ohio (Then, coming up later this month will be California, Florida Minnesota, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri.) make sure you've explored our cheat sheet! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
The worldâs largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that itâs no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans.
Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely
This summer, I dug into a case where police and media outlets claimed a South Carolina woman used a âplastic bag to dump stillborn baby." The truth? She had a miscarriage at 18 weeks. She was turned in by the hospital staff she went to for help. jessica.substack.com/p/south-caro...
You can always tell the media likes a particular guy and wants to help him when they run "THE COMEBACK KID?!" narrative
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:
So⊠when you ask AI a question, somehow youâre supposed to know if the results are incorrect⊠so you keep asking⊠then at some point youâre satisfied that the info is finally correct. Even though, presumably, you asked because you *didnât know* the correct answer! How does this make any sense?
New: I wrote for Rolling Stone about the "rapid deployment units" Trump has ordered Hegseth to have at the ready. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Ezra Klein is right and it matters he's saying this. The question is not "funding the government" or "shutting down the government." It's funding *this* government versus shutting down *this* government. It's not the definite article existing independent of who's in power. It is who's in power.
Wes Moore on vaccine mandates: "We are not going to give in to conspiracy theorists...I do feel for people in these other states who are having to go through this chaos and having conspiracy theorists who are continuing to drive your vaccine policies. My message to them would be to come to Maryland"
FOX: What would say is the last great success that our govt public health agencies have had? RFK Jr: I don't think there have been successes (Kennedy said days ago that Trump should get a Nobel for Operation Warp Speed)
Again, they say these troops are there to make the people of the city feel safe
Personally I think killing kids is wrong
âDo you acknowledge reality?â âNo, i donât.â
My wifeâs doctor told her sheâs planning on writing prescriptions for all of her patients who want the vaccine, without question. May be some risk to her but she doesnât care.
These farmers can't beg Trump to stop destroying their livelihoods with the tariffs, so they're just demanding a check.
So Trump approved a botched military mission during which SEALs killed a number of North Korean civilians, and then likely illegally the Trump administration never briefed Congress about it
The last two months in which American economy lost jobs were June 2025 and December 2020 -- both while Donald Trump was president. Never happened under Biden.
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois wonât be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
The blowdried crybaby who is too chickenshit to ride the C train thinks these namby pamby astronauts have been coddled enough
Authoritarians thrive on your silence â be loud â for America.
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Cleta Mitchell -- the Trump whisperer on all things elections -- thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The US government is now straight up posting nazi propaganda.
Anyone who has been inside the White HouseâIâve visited there more than 15 times over the yearsâcan tell you how horribly gaudy, garish, tasteless and cheap-looking these once-beautiful rooms have become thanks to Trump.
Out of curiosity, yesterday I googled âKennedy Center attendanceâ & the top 3 pages of results were all right-wing sites like the Daily Wire with headlines like âattendance higher than ever! attendance skyrockets!â Theyâre truly living on another planet.
Man, chronic shoulder pain or not, when we get rid of this asshole Iâll happily grab a jackhammer & go to work on that trashy monstrosity.
And thatâs why your employer will never let you get within a mile of a press event with Trump.
I'm taking a required course on how to responsibly perform federally-funded research and it feels like taking a bootlegging course right after the 21st amendment was ratified
I know we call a lot of things Nazi shit these days but this is pure Nazi shit. "Don't show the Fuhrer in an unflattering light!!!"
It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
Trump would have to be the stupidest person in the world to fuck with this march. Completely peaceful. Permitted. Thousands of profoundly regular people This is the platonic peaceful protest. Take note of the people who demonize it: these people openly despise our first amendment
Hello from Washington DC, where hundreds of people and what seems like an unreasonable amount of police are assembling for the We Are All DC March This is the first pre-planned, DC-focused protest since the occupation began. Let's see how this goes đ§”
it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
Oh.
If you're a journalist who sees the president of the United States invading American cities and wants to argue that he may have a point, you may like fascismâor at the very least, you don't mind it.
He is just unbelievably soulless. No conscience whatsoever.
So then OpenAI dies ⊠why is that bad? đ
âPritzker put it in the starkest terms. âAny rational person who has studied history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under color of law, what comes next?ââ open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
New in PN: @willbunch.bsky.social on Trump's DC takeover as a prelude to dictatorship "Now that Trump is sending troops into DC, itâs being called a distraction from Epstein. But if you look at the things theyâre calling distractions, they were always central to MAGAâs mission."
The FBI uses a lot of shitty people as cooperators and informants but Trump is a great example of someone they wouldnât use â a pathologically narcissistic braggart who could never keep a secret or maintain focus. It would be like asking the Trix rabbit to wear a wire.
Itâs almost as if Trump and Hegseth havenât the faintest fucking clue how to defend a nation. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
It seems like my piece this morning about Cleta Michell saying that Trump will "exercise some emergency powers" to in connection with the 2026 elections hit a nerve.đ
looooooollllll hahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
So this is probably a complete and total lie from Johnson but⊠Do you know how virtually all FBI informants become informants in the first place? They get caught committing a crime. Johnsonâs âdefenseâ of Trump is that he got caught being a pedophile and had to flip on his pal Epstein.
I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.
It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, theyâre accusing reporters of actually committing violence. The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos.
Left: yesterday Right: today
they're just gonna try to lie their way through it
This is what they are spending billions on new prisons for
You've heard about scary climate tipping points. But there are also positive social tipping points. Maybe let's shoot for a few of those?